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Rates for a fixed, 30-year mortgage jumped to the highest rate seen in over 20 years - over seven percent. We'll look at what this means for prospective homebuyers, and the housing market in general.

The White House says the mission in Afghanistan marked an important milestone on Tuesday: The hand-off of lead security responsibility from U.S. troops to Afghan forces. It's a key step as Americans prepare to withdraw nearly all combat troops by the end of 2014. Separately, the Obama administration announced the opening of talks with the Taliban about a political settlement to the war.

Israel says its ground operations into Lebanon are limited, targeted raids. In Marjayoun, a town on Lebanon’s border with Israel, rocket fire and raids backed by airstrikes haven't let up.

Consumer prices saw their sharpest increase in more than eight years last month, as businesses struggled to keep pace with booming demand.

A year after Ukrainian soldiers freed it from occupation, the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has learned to live with deadly and near-constant attacks from Russian forces.

A Welsh petition for world peace sat forgotten in the Smithsonian for nearly 100 years. This week, it finally returned to Wales for its signatures to be digitized and its history remembered.

Ultranationalist Israeli lawmakers held a parliamentary hearing to suggest ways to get Palestinians to leave Gaza, an idea raised by President Trump that is gaining public support in Israel.

A major sticking point to reaching a deal has been a small strip of land bordering Gaza’s southernmost border with Egypt, and who will control it. The area is called the Philadelphi Corridor.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Brian Sanson, the new president of the United Mine Workers of America, about the Trump administration's impact on the coal industry and the future of the union.

The future of Hamas and the war in Gaza now that the organization's leader is dead.